In the last few months, I've been living in fear that may laptop's HDD would die on me; it's now more than three years old, and has lived through pretty rough times (e.g. 14 months of Gentoo, and quite a few nights compiling KDE4). Half of the smartctl status codes say "Old_age" and the other half "Pre_fail"...
Last week I took a long-overdue full backup, and I'm now thinking about buying a spare replacement as soon as I can, before ATA-100 (also known as PATA or good ol'IDE) models disappear from the market, now dominated by SATA. My choice seems limited to two models:
- 100Gb 7200rpm, which is exactly what I have now, or...
- a more capable but slower 250Gb 5400rpm
3 comments:
What would you use that extra space for? Would it be feasible to consider an external HD for space needs, and the faster HD for the laptop?
I already have one big external HD. It's impractical to have yet another "technobrick" hanging around with its multitude of cables, so I take it out only for backups.
At the moment, I probably pay the price for a slightly wasteful partitioning scheme on this laptop, that allowed me lots of flexibility through the years. I'd really like to have more or less the same I have now, with just a bit more space...
Io di solito uso sempre HDD relativamente piccoli (60-80-100Gb) per l'OS e il resto, e poi storeggio di tutto in unità esterne/chiavette USB/CD/DVD.
The right way, it's what u prefer.
(Sperando di non scrivere castronerie)
PS: Giulio, ti ho beccato su aNobii!! Per caso. Avevi una libreria simile alla mia, per alcuni aspetti. :)
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